It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.